Mercury in sharp-tailed sparrows breeding in coastal wetlands

Environmental Bioindicators

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 129-135

  Gregory Shriver, W ^a   MacCulloch, Bonnie J ^a   Evers, David C ^b   Hodgman, Thomas P ^c   Taylor, Robert J ^d  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c MAINE DEPARTMENT OF INLAND FISHERIES AND WILDLIFE   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Avian; Mercury; Salt marsh; Sparrow

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009968491     PISSN: 15555275     EISSN: 15555267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15555270600695734     Document Type: Article

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